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How
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Nov 07, 2020

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

Girl
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Nov 07, 2020

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Dumb
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

I Can
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

Modelled
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Nov 07, 2020

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

Fire
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Nov 07, 2020

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

Music
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Nov 07, 2020

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Food
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Nov 07, 2020

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

Big Ones
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Nov 07, 2020

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.

Making
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Nov 07, 2020

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

Nov 07, 2020

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Rain
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Nov 07, 2020

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Cannot
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Nov 07, 2020

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Next
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Nov 07, 2020

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

Enough
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Nov 07, 2020

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

Live
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Nov 07, 2020

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

Eyes
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Nov 07, 2020

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.

Nov 07, 2020

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

Nov 07, 2020

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

Old
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Nov 07, 2020

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

Nov 07, 2020

I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.

Enjoyed
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Nov 07, 2020

I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

More
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Nov 07, 2020

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

Business
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Nov 07, 2020

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

Fortunate
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Nov 07, 2020

I've been very fortunate.

Costs
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Nov 07, 2020

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

Nov 07, 2020

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

Making
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

Full
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Nov 07, 2020

My life has been very full.

Get
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Nov 07, 2020

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

Gay
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Nov 07, 2020

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they've been very loyal and kind to me.

Hair
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Nov 07, 2020

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.

Dreams
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Nov 07, 2020

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Children
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Nov 07, 2020

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

Girl
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm just a simple country girl.

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

Happy
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I Can
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Nov 07, 2020

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

Family
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Nov 07, 2020

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Fans
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Nov 07, 2020

I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

Out
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Nov 07, 2020

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

Feel
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Nov 07, 2020

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Little
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Nov 07, 2020

I can't do nothing just a little.

Food
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Nov 07, 2020

I was always a junk food person, still am.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.

Nov 07, 2020

I'm a workin' girl.

Hope
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Nov 07, 2020

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

Preacher
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Nov 07, 2020

My grandpa was a preacher.

Day
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Nov 07, 2020

Every day I pray about all I do.

Husband
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Nov 07, 2020

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

Perfect
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Nov 07, 2020

I think that I'm perfect.

Lived
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Nov 07, 2020

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Day
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Nov 07, 2020

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can 'cause I know I'm gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Feel
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Nov 07, 2020

I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.

Men
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Nov 07, 2020

I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

Exercise
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Nov 07, 2020

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets.

Feminist
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Nov 07, 2020

I've never been a feminist.

Fact
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Nov 07, 2020

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

Purpose
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Nov 07, 2020

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Birth
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Nov 07, 2020

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

Magic
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Nov 07, 2020

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

Just
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Nov 07, 2020

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.

Nov 07, 2020

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don't require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I'll take a powernap during the day.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Competition
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Nov 07, 2020

If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.

My Own
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Nov 07, 2020

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.

Business
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Nov 07, 2020

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

Just
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Nov 07, 2020

I just don't have time to get old!

Girl
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Nov 07, 2020

I always think of myself as a working girl.

Money
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Nov 07, 2020

Money ain't everything.

Lost
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Nov 07, 2020

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Friends
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Nov 07, 2020

I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.

Country
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Nov 07, 2020

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

Husband
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

Gay
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Nov 07, 2020

I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on.

Energy
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody's energy. But I give it back.

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